Gender and Rights: A Resource Guide

From Gendernet, a network of Danish non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and the Royal Tropical Institute, this online resource is written to strengthen the capacity of Danish NGOs to combine gender and rights frameworks and approaches. The Resource Guide introduces and narrates the literature on gender rights in order to explain how, why, and under what circumstances rights-based approaches (RBAs) can add to gender equality, and how gender and development (GAD) theory and practice can contribute to rights-based approaches.

According to the Introduction: "The development of the Resource Guide has been informed by the practices and challenges of Gendernet members and their partners, as well as by literature on gender and development, human rights and rights-based approaches to development. The Guide begins by ‘unpacking’ concepts of rights in order to understand why past approaches to human rights have often failed to further women’s rights or address gender inequality. It also captures practices emerging from struggles for gender equality and rights and proposes ways in which RBA and GAD can be mutually enriching. The Guide clarifies concepts, introduces analytical tools, and identifies the implications of these concepts and tools for development practice, providing examples where possible."

Contents:

1. Introduction: Introducing the guide, Introducing RBAs, Introducing rights, Introducing gender, Gender analysis of rights, References
   
2. Roots of Rights
   
3. Dilemmas
   
4. Normative Framework
   
5. Power, Agency, and Institutions
   
6. Law, Administration, and Politics
   
7. Organisational Change
   
8. Issue Briefs
   
9. Annotated Bibliography